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Castrol Motorcycle Chain wax to waterproof my v8

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Range Rover Blues:
I use white greaser on Blue, better than the tuff toys thing that perished anyway.  It's the propellant (butane) that's highly flamable, once on it's no worse than anything else under the bonnet.

davidjmiller:
OK, so yesterday I gave the machine two good layers of the wax (and this is also over the 8-fingered glovey thing). Today went to some of the local fords as seen at the excellent wetroads site (thanks Lee if you are reading this!!) at....

http://vamp.idlers.org/~jaffa/cambridgeshire.htm

First of all did Bourn which was looking good given the recent rainfall (pretty much as in the wetroads pictures)....

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?gride=531700&gridn=257250&scale=25000&coordsys=gb

which was great (were you the guy in the Disco coming the other way with a big smile!!!)

and then went on to the small splash at Hilton.....

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?gride=529180&gridn=266130&scale=25000&coordsys=gb

.....which was better than normal but still just a second or so as you cross the stream.

Well, there was not one single cough or splutter - excellent (although I did switch from LPG over to petrol - which is a mistake i think I made before).

So far, so good.

MudClub advice comes up trumps again. Cheers,

David

p.s. this is almost like one of BTM's "out and about" posts ;-)

Eeyore:
The big probelm with the dizzy on the V8 is that is has holes in the bottom. as well as letting some water in around the leads and cap etc. Water enters the dizzy from underneath and soaks the mecahnism. You dry the dizzy and the problem returns from the water still trapped inside the dizzy body (all that condensation in the cap is a giveaway).  The holes keep the main gizzards of the dizzy at atmospheric pressure and are impertive to the operation of the vacuum advance system.

However there is a cheap and very cheerful solution possible, more details can be found here:
http://www.rhel.co.uk/tomcattech/dizzy.htm

So, the suggested mod, plus good leads, plus a dose of chain wax over the top and most of your wet running problems go away. Beleive me, it works.  8)

But do not be tempted to manifold the dizzy breathers in with your axle / gearbox breathers etc, because it will upset the vacuum advance on the dizzy  :wink:  .

HTH
Cheers
 8)
Eeyore

hingmy:
cheers for that - thats now on the to-do list as well.

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